FrameThrower · Actors · Jiang Wen
Jiang Wen
2 films · 119 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2016
Born 5 January 1963 · Tangshan, Hebei, China
Jiang Wen is a Chinese film actor, screenwriter, and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "Sixth Generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum (1986), and more recently as Baze Malbus in the Star Wars film Rogue One (2016). He is the older brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 119 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2016
- Prix France Culture Cinéma2001
- Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor1998
- Golden Horse Award for Best Director1996
- Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor1989
- Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actor1987
- China Film Director's Guild Award for Best Director
- Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor
How their films are shot
Measured across 119 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jiang takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 60% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Jiang takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 119 frames from Jiang Wen's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.